Santelli & Liddy: Twin Cowards.

From ThinkProgress: 

CNBC’s Rick Santelli appeared on at least two radio programs today to promote his “rant” against President Obama’s housing program. On G. Gordon Liddy’s radio program, Santelli called attention to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’s response to his tirade. He cropped a quote from Gibbs to suggest the White House was pursuing a campaign of intimidation against him:

SANTELLI: He started that press conference saying, “I don’t know where he lives, I don’t know where his house is.” This is the Press Secretary of the White House. Is that the kind of thing we want? Is that...

LIDDY: It’s a veiled threat.

SANTELLI: It really is. […] I don’t really want to be a spokesman, but I really am very proud of a) the response I’m getting, which is overwhelmingly positive, and b) discourse, that is debate. That if the pressure and the heat I’m taking from the White House – the fact my kids are nervous to go to school – I can take that, okay.

Here's the exchange:

Santelli also appeared on Mike Gallagher’s radio show, again stating “it was very scary” to have the White House Press Secretary say, “we don’t know where he lives or where his house is.”

The White House, however, has made no threats against Santelli. Here’s Gibbs’s full quote(which Santelli conveniently failed to use):

GIBBS: I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives but the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgages, stay in their jobs, pay their bills, send their kids to school.

Gibbs wasn’t threatening Santelli; he was pointing out the sheer absurdity of a well-to-do pundit criticizing Obama’s housing plan as seeking to simply “subsidize the losers’ mortgages.”

I posted something on Santelli last week. He hadn't even read the plan before he staged his rant, and now he's trying to extend his 15 minutes of fame. 

G. Gordon Liddy is a broadcast sociopath. For him to claim that Robert Gibbs was making a "veiled threat" sounds to me like he's accusing the press secretary of a terrorist act. Shouldn't Liddy be canned for that shit?

Oops! What am I thinking? He's just being outrageous! It's good for business!

Give me a break.

If CNBC really wants to position itself as a reputable source of financial news and analysis, surely they can do better than Rick Santelli. 

Of course, a monkey with a microphone stuck up its ass could replace G. Gordon Liddy during a commercial break and listeners would notice a doubling of the IQ the instant the ape squealed.